Well if the robot is built by a (now human-less) American robotics company, in (the former) USA, and sent back in time to assassinate/protect an American living in Los Angeles, I would think the machines would program it with an American accent.
Weird coincidence: watched part of it last night. (Through Harry the cabbie. Too tired to watch any more)
If I could pick the product myself, I'd like this. For instance I always forget to order water softener salt until it's too late for instance - would be nice to just stick this on the water so I can press as I'm loading the last of the salt in.
A better solution would be a QR code sticker. You can change the water filter, then scan the code with your phone. The transaction goes through your phone anyway... assuming you left bluetooth on, which I imagine is the technology used for these devices. Better to just use the phone to begin with.
If Amazon would just slap a QR code on everything they sell, you could use your phone to buy another one. It might also be used for verification that a picking robot has located the correct item.
Cops and prosecutors don't have unlimited resources, so by definition they have to pick and chose which laws to enforce.
The state doesn't have unlimited resources, so by definition it should not make laws it can't or shouldn't reasonably enforce.
Ideally, this means they threaten the 19 year old who gets it on with her 16 year old boyfriend with probation rather than having to register as a sex offender for the next 30 years, and instead focus on the deputy mayor who got caught slapping his wife around.
Alas, we know that's not how it works.
That's sounding a little Randian.
Only if you have poor reading comprehension skills.
The solution to corrupt actors within the state isn't to get rid of the state, but the corrupt actors.
Nobody suggested abolishing the state.
What is this rubbish?
This rubbish is Office 365.
Didn't we have these talks a long time ago already?
No. This is about Office 365, not about Office for Windows.
and I look forward to the day when all humans have been replaced by them.
Funny. The Russians seem to have your backs to the wall over the Ukraine...
Oddly, California has higher standards for insulation than pretty much anywhere in the USA.
Many places with cold winters (upper mid-west) use natural gas for heating and the summer season requiring air conditioning is pretty short so some things like white roofs don't work well there.
White roofs? Really? That's the closest you could get to insulation? You've got a long way to troll before you troll, troll.
We're talking about different movies. I got the title wrong, it's "The Beach". It came out in the 90s, and is about Leo finding this secret commune colony on an island near Thailand and living in it for a while before some drug growers get mad at them and kick them out.
I remember when Slashdot used to put an effort into coming up with some story that was just plausible enough to have people wondering whether it was an April Fools joke or not. But today, this year? No attempt at plausibility whatsoever. Just lame summaries hashing out old Sci-Fi plot lines.
It's weak, man.
Even from dice-droids I expect better than this.
Yep, that's about it. Too bad George didn't keep him (or other decent directors) for all the other movies he made.
And I'm not saying that episodes 4-6 were utterly fantastic movies in every way; obviously they had a good bit of camp (esp. #4), but that was part of the charm I think. They were never meant to be ultra-serious, "deep" movies with Oscar-winning performances (not that the Oscars are good indicators of performance quality these days anyway), they were meant to be visual feasts that were fun to watch while eating popcorn and watching it on a big screen. They had mildly interesting plots, decent characters, good comedic relief (thanks C3PO!), they weren't "dark" or "gritty", all in all they were great escapist entertainment, and while again not having top-of-the-line acting and script, what they had served the movies well.
That all changed with the Prequels. The plots weren't that bad and the characters might have been OK, the visuals were certainly great for the time (though too fake-looking, but lots of high-CGI movies of that era suffered the same problems), but the horrible acting and dialog really ruined it all, they broke the suspension of disbelief. (The obvious racist stereotypes in Ep.1 didn't help.) I've seen better acting on fan-made Star Trek episodes. And at least with the fan-made Star Trek stuff, you know going into it that this is what you're going to be watching. I don't expect to see amateurish acting in a $100M+ movie. And also, my expectations are much higher: I'm not forgiving of seeing a highly-paid professional actor deliver amateurish acting, while I am forgiving of an unpaid truly amateur actor deliver amateurish acting.
You see taxes as a weapon to punish the wealthy and successful.
On the contrary, taxes are a way to maintain the stability of society and thus save the wealthy and successful from their own shortsightedness. Without progressive taxation to maintain a middle class, wealthy elites will eventually end up being lynched by rampaging hordes of serfs. History has shown it to be pretty much inevitable.
If you're a member of the wealthy elite, your choice is not between being taxed or not being taxed; your choice is between being taxed and having your head forced into a guillotine.
Leonardo was in several great roles before Titanic proving his acting ability, including Gilbert Grape and The Island.
Big Bang Theory seems to do OK with a reasonable-sized apartment (not the huge places you see on things like Friends). It is a little suspicious how waitress Penny can afford her own place though, when her two physicist friends across the hall are sharing a place.
Slashdot has notoriously always had a comically unfunny April 1st, and at this point I have to think the complete lameness of it all is the real meta-joke.
Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated. -- R. Drabek
